EA - EA Organization Updates: September 2022 by Lizka

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Organization Updates: September 2022, published by Lizka on September 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. These monthly posts originated as the "Updates" section of the EA Newsletter. Organizations submit their own updates, which we edit for clarity. Job listings that these organizations highlighted are at the top of this post. Some of the jobs have extremely pressing deadlines. You can see previous updates on the "EA Organization Updates (monthly series)" topic page, or in our repository of past newsletters. Notice that there’s also an “org update” tag, where you can find more news and updates that are not part of this consolidated series. The organizations are in alphabetical order, starting with L this month. Job listings Consider also exploring jobs listed on “Job listing (open).” Applications closing soon 80,000 Hours: Full Stack Web Developer, (London / Remote, apply by 26 September) Centre for Effective Altruism: Project Manager: Community Health (Remote, apply by 30 September) Retreats Associate (Remote, apply by 10 October) EA Global Events Associate (Remote, apply by 10 October) Community Events Associate (Remote, apply by 10 October) Effective Ventures Operations Operations Assistant (Preferred Oxford, London or Boston / Remote, apply by 19 September) Executive Assistant (Preferred Oxford / Remote, apply by 19 September) Project Manager Oxford EA Professional Hub (Oxford UK, apply by 19 September) Senior Bookkeeper / Accountant (Preferred Oxford, London or Boston / Remote, apply by 19 September) Finance Associate (Preferred Oxford/ Remote, apply by 7 October) Operations Associate - Salesforce Admin (Preferred Oxford/ Remote, apply by 12 October) Forethought Foundation: Communications Director (Oxford / Remote, apply by 2 October) Researcher / Writer (Oxford / Remote, apply by 2 October) Other roles Against Malaria Foundation: Junior and Senior Operations Manager Donations Administrator Junior and Senior Software Engineer Alignment Research Center: Generalist Technical Researcher and a webdev Engineer GiveWell Operations Assistant (Oakland, CA) Senior Researchers and Senior Research Associates (Remote / Oakland, CA) Content Editors (Remote / Oakland, CA) Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI) Technical Product Manager (Berkeley / Remote) Full Stack Software Engineer (Berkeley / Remote) Programming Language or Scientific Software Engineer (Berkeley / Remote) Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative: Deputy Director (NYC / Remote) Rethink Priorities: Multiple research team roles (Remote) Organizational updates Legal Priorities Project The Legal Priorities Project ran its Legal Priorities Summer Institute from Sep 3–8 in Oxford. 35 talented law students and graduates from 18 different countries and all 5 continents gathered to discuss issues related to future generations and existential risk. Participants with various degrees of familiarity with longtermism participated in workshops, talks, and group discussions with invited experts on issues relating to legal longtermism. LPP also announced the winning submissions from their Cost–Benefit Analysis Writing Competition. The winning submissions can be found here. LPP funded two student reading groups at ITAM, with curricula centering on The Precipice and the Introduction to EA Program, respectively. Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute QURI released Squiggle, a free new web–based programming language for probabilistic estimation. Squiggle is made especially for effective altruist cost–effectiveness estimation. Squiggle is currently in public “Early Access”, but should be usable for many effective altruist use cases. Rethink Priorities (RP) Research: Epoch – an AI research initiative that RP is incubating – did a deep–dive investigation of machine learning model size trends and hypothesized rea...